# Search\_phase\_execution\_exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-phase-execution-exception/286336>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 11, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-phase-execution-exception/286336 "2021-10-11T06:19:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![prashanth\_sri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prashanth_sri/32/75929_2.png) [@prashanth\_sri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prashanth_sri)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-phase-execution-exception/286336/1 "2021-10-11T06:19:35Z")

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hi all , i have 15 nodes in my Elasticsearch cluster, and each shards have 10GB , currently we have (1 shard+2 replicas ) ,we are using 6.18 elastic version , we are try ing to access data from api , but when i am running quires , all the time we are getting some error message {"message":"[search\_phase\_execution\_exception] ","status":"error","statusCode":503,"meta":{"totalElapsedTime":"4.466 sec"}}, how to fix this error .  
i am getting above message most of my quires .can any one help how to fix this error .

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-phase-execution-exception/286336/2 "2021-10-11T06:49:32Z")

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Is there more to the error?  
What do the Elasticsearch logs show?

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**Author:** ![prashanth\_sri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prashanth_sri/32/75929_2.png) [@prashanth\_sri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prashanth_sri)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-phase-execution-exception/286336/3 "2021-10-11T15:27:07Z")

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[INFO][o.e.t.LoggingTaskListener] [node1] 73066301finished with response BulkByScrollResponse[took=3.7s,timed\_out=false,sliceId=null,updated=59,created=0,deleted=0,batches=1,versionConflicts=0,noops=0,retries=0,throttledUntil=0s,bulk\_failures=,search\_failures=]

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-phase-execution-exception/286336/4 "2021-11-08T15:27:42Z")

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